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iOS 9.3 'Most Stable New Release in Years', Says Analytics Firm
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Honestly, the only version of iOS that I ever had an issue with is iOS 8. The initial release of iOS 8 was so buggy and I was plagued by the "I can't answer my phone" bug (the touch screen on my iPhone 5c would become completely unresponsive whenever my phone rang and wouldn't work again until I had missed the call), with the problems peaking with iOS 8.0.2 (every phone call) and getting less frequent with each release but not going away entirely until iOS 8.3. With iOS 9 my only complaint was that my iPhone 5c felt a little laggy at times (I think this issue improved with later releases) but then I upgraded to an iPhone 6s and have had zero problems with any iOS 9 releases (including 9.3). Not saying that people aren't having issue with iOS 9.3, but I would believe that the issues are fewer than previous releases.
Rim shot...
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I don't even have a backup... I'm having to open each link I want to access as new tabs in the Chrome app. Embarrassing.
Not really and it shouldn't be. iOS is mature enough and has a small enough model base that broken or misbehaving functions should be the primary statistic. Not crashes.
The problem is because of misbehaving drivers. It isn't tied to Vista at all. - Steve Monkey Boy Balmy
And if you didn't update you would likely have been affected nonetheless at around the same time.
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2016/03/30/apple-ios-9-3-safari-links-fix/#c03094578712
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Except people before 9.3 are having the problem. That means it has nothing to do with 9.3.
As in people with versions prior to iOS 9.3 are also experiencing the issue. Not exactly a hard concept to grasp.*ROTFL*
It is as "not related to IOS 9.3" as well as apples don´t fall to ground related to gravitation….
Why would I want to discard something that was working perfectly, sans the iOS9 upgrade?
Despite its much-publicized problems, Apple's iOS 9.3 is showing a lower crash rate than all active iOS builds, an app analytics firm reported yesterday (via AppleInsider).
According to California-based Apteligent, over the past eight days iOS 9.3 has had a crash rate of only 2.2 percent, making it the most stable iOS release in circulation. Apple's new iOS also beat the latest version of Android, which had a reported crash rate of approximately 2.6 percent.
By contrast, iOS 8, iOS 9 and iOS 9.2 have all fared worse over the month of March, with crash rates of 3.2 percent meaning their users were more likely to experience problems than early adopters of Apple's latest mobile OS iteration.
The study will come as a surprise to many, following media coverage of issues reported by a number of iOS users. Apple is aware of an issue causing web links to crash in multiple iOS apps like Safari, Mail, and Messages, and says it is working on a fix that will be released "soon" via a software update.
The bug was the second major bug to affect iOS 9.3 users. The first rendered some older devices unusable due to a problem with Activation Lock, which required customers to enter the information originally used to set up their iPhone or iPad. Apple released a new version of iOS 9.3 on Monday to fix the issue.
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On iOS9.3: It may not be crashing as much due to the possibility that on iPAD2 it does not just crash, it bricks the device. These become invisible? For example on my device at present: The mail does not link to browsers and the browsers internal links do not work. Apple released an update, which is something of a joke. It does nothing for the mail connectivity, it only partially corrects the ability to link from google searches, but not from yahoo- and does nothing for opening url-protected (e.g., linked by adding a password once in the primary site). For Safari to work this minimal amount, it requires Java to be turned off, and then to reply to a post- it specifically cannot unless Java is turned on. As that is impossible, so it responding to posts. It is amusing that when apple asked how a chat went on this problem, the reply could not be posted from an iPAD that I own. This would be unacceptable for most companies, but here Apple has gotten away with this release to date with nonsense as above- that it does not crash 'that often'. One might wonder if this is an attempt to encourage iPAD2 owners to purchase the next version of the device. I think they get away with this behavior as the choices are limited- as noted- in that none of these companies appear to really care prior to releasing an update. In case the point was missed, the Monday correction did nothing.
I'm guessing they did something like "if file size if over a few kb, don't try loading it" when it comes to the whole sharing problem.
Perhaps. I'm glad it works. I hope Apple learns from this debacle and improves its iOS quality/reliability going forward.
Lol, maybe they should try using it before claiming this.
In spite of the web link issue and activation issue on older devices there seems to be not as nearly as many headaches as in previous releases however those two issues seemed to be, yet again, pretty avoidable issues to have introduced anyways.
Nobody clicked on a web link during the betas or Apple never upgraded an old device?
In spite of the web link issue and activation issue on older devices there seems to be not as nearly as many headaches as in previous releases however those two issues seemed to be, yet again, pretty avoidable issues to have introduced anyways.
Nobody clicked on a web link during the betas or Apple never upgraded an old device?
Jony Ive just forgot that iPhones are NOT beautiful sculptures to look at - but daily-life-products which are in fact USED by customers - can anybody tell him the truth?
If you do: be careful - he as an artist - and will be shocked about reality...
If you do: be careful - he as an artist - and will be shocked about reality...
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If it truly is "randomly" freezing, it's most likely a hardware error. OSX is still (unacceptably so, IMHO) extremely fragile to IO errors. Most likely your boot hard drive is slowly going bad; it's also possible, especially if you have a 5 year or older USB drive attached that the problem is in that drive (though generating OS crashes with a broken USB drive is a lot rarer than with a broken internal drive).
You could try using Disk Utility to check out the SMART status, but IMHO Disk Utility is kinda useless fro looking at SMART. I'd recommend DriveDX (costs, but has a one week free mode), and IMHO is worth the cost in terms of telling you exactly how your drive is dying.
If the drive IS dying, your options vary depending on the mac type and how old it is. If it's an older MacBook, you can easily swap out the drive. If it's a stationary mac you can buy an external drive (I'd REALLY recommend an SSD, but that's up to you), plug it in, then
- boot from the recovery partition
- install the OS onto the new drive, including restoring from Time Machine
- set your system to boot from the new (external) drive
- completely wipe the internal drive and mark it as an unused partition. (If you don't do this, the OS may still occasionally try to read from that drive, and you're back to the problem of random crashes.)